Table 9_2_2-3

2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.

Table 9_2_2.3
Home health care patients who get better at bathing, by State, 2005 and 2007^a
State	2007			2005
State	Number of providers	Percent	SE	Number of providers	Percent	SE
Total	8,972	62.5	0.15	6,465	60.1	0.1
Alabama	143	65.2	1.15	139	60.6	0.9
Alaska	16	67.2	2.83	11	61.5	3.1
Arizona	85	62.0	1.10	67	61.8	0.9
Arkansas	172	61.3	0.90	145	56.4	1.1
California	649	66.7	0.50	521	64.6	0.5
Colorado	134	61.6	1.04	100	60.7	0.9
Connecticut	82	59.6	0.96	73	57.6	0.9
Delaware	18	58.2	2.75	14	52.8	2.9
District of Columbia	23	57.9	3.02	13	51.8	4.1
Florida	803	63.8	0.55	512	60.8	0.5
Georgia	98	64.3	1.06	92	60.1	0.9
Hawaii	14	67.7	1.93	14	65.5	2.1
Idaho	48	62.3	1.43	48	59.4	1.3
Illinois	483	63.3	0.70	291	62.1	0.7
Indiana	186	61.7	0.86	136	58.4	0.9
Iowa	175	58.2	0.85	140	56.4	0.9
Kansas	129	62.2	1.19	97	59.5	1.2
Kentucky	102	59.5	0.97	99	56.1	0.9
Louisiana	218	64.2	0.91	179	58.6	0.9
Maine	29	59.9	1.78	26	56.2	1.6
Maryland	48	63.4	1.06	44	60.1	0.8
Massachusetts	127	60.8	0.94	97	56.5	0.9
Michigan	380	64.9	0.57	251	63.9	0.6
Minnesota	200	55.1	1.03	131	54.9	1.0
Mississippi	54	62.7	1.69	53	60.2	1.2
Missouri	167	62.2	0.94	142	58.1	0.7
Montana	35	63.1	2.08	30	60.5	1.2
Nebraska	68	61.2	1.47	50	58.0	1.8
Nevada	68	68.4	1.69	47	63.3	1.3
New Hampshire	36	60.8	1.57	31	59.4	1.1
New Jersey	49	63.7	0.71	48	60.3	0.9
New Mexico	66	68.1	0.95	56	67.4	1.2
New York	185	57.6	0.70	162	56.9	0.7
North Carolina	168	59.3	0.65	160	57.0	0.6
North Dakota	23	62.8	1.97	23	57.8	2.4
Ohio	467	55.5	0.75	278	55.1	0.6
Oklahoma	214	61.0	0.86	166	58.7	0.9
Oregon	56	63.2	0.82	58	62.6	0.9
Pennsylvania	295	62.6	0.62	228	59.9	0.7
Rhode Island	22	59.6	1.44	21	55.5	1.9
South Carolina	67	67.0	1.33	63	63.0	0.9
South Dakota	39	63.2	2.43	30	61.7	2.3
Tennessee	139	67.3	0.94	129	61.2	0.8
Texas	1,798	62.0	0.48	977	60.9	0.5
Utah	68	71.1	1.31	45	67.8	1.1
Vermont	12	61.4	2.08	12	60.6	1.7
Virginia	185	61.2	0.83	145	59.7	0.8
Washington	60	63.1	0.82	57	62.5	0.8
West Virginia	61	60.6	1.08	57	56.2	1.3
Wisconsin	126	57.4	1.16	90	54.6	1.0
Wyoming	27	61.7	1.70	18	62.4	1.9

^a Data were downloaded from http://www.medicare.gov/Download/DownloadDB.asp on March 31, 2006, for the 2005 estimates and on April 18, 2008, for the 2007 estimates.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Outcome and Assessment Information Set.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 9_2_2-3: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/9_nursinghome_homehealth_hospice/T9_2_2-3.html